"Xia Xu! Xia Xu's back!"
"Wow, tall, handsome, and the boss of a corporate group. A rich, tall, handsome guy in the flesh!"
"Slurp. That build-I bet he's all muscle under those clothes!"
"He seems a lot taller than before. Did the Mechanic undergo the [Heavenly Soldier] project himself?"
As the Venom Supercar pulled up to the gates of the International Scientific Research University again, countless people stopped to stare. For a moment, time seemed to freeze at the entrance.
Because of the Werewolf Giants incident, this car had become Xia Xu's signature ride. And if anyone deserved to be called the most famous figure of the past two months, it was undoubtedly Xia Xu. It was hardly surprising that he drew a crowd.
He smiled and nodded politely to the students bold enough to greet him as the car rolled slowly onto campus.
"Huh? Why's the laboratory building so busy today?"
Xia Xu had not intended to stop as he passed the Mechanical Engineering Institute's laboratory building, but a dense crowd had gathered outside, with quite a few familiar faces among them.
Some were faculty and students from the Mechanical Engineering Institute. Although Xia Xu had skipped classes for practically the entire semester, his powerful memory still allowed him to recognize quite a few.
There were also some students who presumably belonged to other departments. At the very front of the crowd stood quite a few reporters, most of them from foreign media outlets.
"Hey, what's going on in there? Why's it so busy?"
Xia Xu drove to the intersection at the corner and leaned his head out the window to ask a student who had been squeezed all the way to the edge of a landscaped flower bed.
"You don't... the Mechanic!!!"
The student turned instinctively. Once he